SysPrac26 Talks & Workshops

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The line-up for the SysPrac26 Systems Thinking Practitioner’s Conference is now largely complete although it is possible there will still be some late changes.

Confirmed presentations (A–Z by last name of first presenter)
Abstracts 
 
  • Keiron Beardmore - System Shapes, Orbital Perspectives and Spheres
  • Justin Beirold - Embedding Systems Thinking at Innovate UK Business Connect: Industrial Strategy, Technology and Innovation Ecosystems
  • Mike Bourne - Governance of Complex Projects
  • Kyle Buckle-Hodgson - Some Perspectives on Perspective
  • Bridie Collins - Ecosystem in a Local Government Setting
  • Pauline Craig/Macmillan - Applying systems thinking to support people living with cancer
  • Meriel Davies - Exploring Systems Thinking in Supply Chain Management
  • Melissa Dawson - Adapting How We Practice in a Constantly Changing Working Environment
  • Jon Elphick - Mind the Gap…. in Weltanschauung
  • Denis Fischbacher-Smith - How did it come to this?
  • Helena Elisabeth Gallbo - Qualitative Differences in Attenuators: Country office to headquarters signalling in international companies
  • Anne Gambles - Seeing services as systems: what does it mean to design services
  • Louie Gardiner - Symmathesic Agency
  • Sacha Girling - Square Pegs, Round Holes, and Rich Pictures: Following the Situation Rather than the Method
  • Roelien Goede - Reporting of a CSH Project
  • Simon Gough - Network Analysis and Boundary Critique
  • Dave Hall - What happens when a Governance Review becomes an inquiry into how an institution learns, decides, adapts and legitimises itself?
  • Timo J. Hämäläinen - Ten complexity governance principles
  • Virginia de La Hamayde - Editing the system, not the document: applying systems thinking to annual report production in large public organisations
  • Virginia de La Hamayde, Jessica Britton, Mel Harris & Tash Koerner - Apprentices without masters: Building systems thinking practice capability
  • Edward Hilton - From a Search for Intrinsic Value to Persistent Systems: The Deductive Development of TEQR
  • Olivia Horgan - Conditions of Perception: What Embodied Experience Reveals About Systems Practice Under Pressure
  • Patrick Hoverstadt & Ed Straw - 42 – Addressing societal level policy problems with systems Principles
  • Louis Klein - Realising the Learning Organisation  -  A thirty - year Odyssey along the hype cycle.
  • Janne J. Korhonen - What Happens When Nothing Happens? A Metabolic Perspective on Organizational Change
  • Charis Lüdtke - Building Circular economy using the Multi - flow method
  • Joan Lurie - From Linear Transformation to 4D System Looping
  • Simon MacCormac & John Rogers - Getting into the Mess
  • Christine McNeal - Applying Soft Systems Methodology to Review Adult Skills Funding: Lessons from a First - Time Practitioner
  • John Mortimer - Perhaps the most important learning to create success is what we learn from failure
  • Gordon Niven - Variety Calculus: Cybernetic Methodology
  • Anca Popa - Patterns of systemic relationships in change programmes
  • Kai - Uwe Radde - Internalized Liabilities (obvious but invisible)
  • Carola Ritzinger-Roll - From viability to measurability – Designing governance structures in highly complex and regulated organisational contexts
  • Gavin Roberts - Practice in the real world
  • Lesley Rowan - VSM  -  starting with a blank piece of paper
  • Max Shen - Reducing Complexity or Relocating It? Applying VSM to NHS England’s Transition into DHSC
  • Claire Tanton - System Asset or Organisation Dataset? Ethical Service User Engagement in Systems Practice
  • Ivo Velitchkov - The Second Law of Technodynamics
  • Jan De Visch - Beyond Sustainability
  • Kim Warren - Implementing the Self - Managing Enterprise with Agentic AI
  • Tim Whitcher - Systems in Symmetry: Symmetry in Systems
  • Steve Whitla - Systems, purpose and the pursuit of shared meaning
  • Esmee Wilcox - How might understanding tempo help systemic action in government - community interactions?
  • Benjamin Wood - Closing the Loop: The Participatory and Cybernetic Founding of SCiO USA
  • Mark Workman - The application of Deep Uncertainty approaches for strategy design in possible dynamic, high dimensional futures

Workshops

  • Takiyah Butler - Bridge gap between individual agency and whole system transformation
  • Tim Curtis - Interactive Planning
  • Louise Le Gat - Changing Mindsets
  • Martin Günther - From Complexity Theory to Interaction Design: Designing for Emergence with Liberating Structures
  • Patrick Hoverstadt - Viable System Model (VSM)  -  Balancing Complexity
  • Tony Korycki - De-misting Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH)
  • Simon MacCormac - Managing Systems interventions
  • Simon MacCormac & Patrick Hoverstadt - Multi - Methodology
  • Xavier Matieni - From Systems Thinking to Systems Judgement: Exploring a Neglected Capability in Management Practice
  • Gavin Roberts - Systemic Leadership
  • Benjamin Taylor - Making relational, place - based public services ordinary
  • Benjamin Taylor - Systemic Consulting
  • Jan De Visch - Humanising Systems
  • Kim Warren - System Dynamics (SD)